![]() ![]() This experience led to his founding the Court of Last Resort in the 1940s. Once he was admitted to the Bar, he started working as a trial lawyer by defending impoverished people, in particular Chinese and Mexican immigrants. Gardner started his legal career by working as a typist at a law firm in California for three years. He returned to California, pursued his legal education on his own, and passed the California State Bar examination in 1911. He was suspended after approximately one month when his interest in boxing became a distraction. Gardner graduated from Palo Alto High School in California in 1909 and enrolled at Valparaiso University School of Law in Indiana. Gardner was born in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Grace Adelma (Waugh) and Charles Walter Gardner. The First National Bank Building in Ventura, where Gardner wrote drafts for first Perry Mason novels ![]()
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